Earl Lafayete Hall, III, Veterans’ Unemployment Compensation Benefit Fraud, Pennsylvania 2014

A Tennessee man has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining $7,319 in Veterans’ unemployment compensation benefits from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.

Earl Lafayete Hall, III, 35, of Arlington, Tennessee, is charged with 12 Counts of Mail Fraud and 10 Counts of Money Laundering. Hall applied for Veteran’s unemployment compensation benefits under the false name and identity of another individual and received checks totaling $7,319 between July and November of 2014.

The Indictment alleges that the benefit checks were deposited into a bank account Hall controlled in Illinois. Thereafter, $4,900 in cash was removed from the account, which forms the basis of the Money Laundering counts in the Indictment.

The Indictment also charges Hall with one count of Aggravated Identity Theft.

Hall received the benefits under the Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Service Members Program, which is commonly known as ‘The UCX Program.’ The UCX Program is a federally funded U.S. Department of Labor program administered by the States.

The investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering & Fraud Investigations, U.S. Defense Criminal Investigative Service, U.S. Postal Inspection Service with assistance from Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Internal Audits Division, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Office of Unemployment Compensation Benefits and Policy, and the Pennsylvania Department of the Treasury, Office of Unemployment Compensation Disbursements.

Hall was arrested by federal agents in Arlington and appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Memphis, Tennessee for a bail hearing and was released on a $5,000 unsecured bail.

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